216 research outputs found
Lenses as an Atom-Photon Interface: A Semiclassical Model
Strong interaction between the light field and an atom is often achieved with
cavities. Recent experiments have used a different configuration: a propagating
light field is strongly focused using a system of lenses, the atom being
supposed to sit at the focal position. In reality, this last condition holds
only up to some approximation; in particular, at any finite temperature, the
atom position fluctuates. We present a formalism that describes the focalized
field and the atom sitting at an arbitrary position. As a first application, we
show that thermal fluctuations do account for the extinction data reported in
M. K. Tey et al., Nature Physics 4, 924 (2008)
Solving the scattering of N photons on a two-level atom without computation
We propose a novel approach for solving the scattering of light onto a
two-level atom coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. We first express the
physical quantity of interest in terms of Feynman diagrams and treat the atom
as a non-saturable linear beamsplitter. By using the atomic response to our
advantage, a relevant substitution is then made that captures the nonlinearity
of the atom, and the final result is obtained in terms of simple integrals over
the initial incoming wavepackets. The procedure is not limited to
post-scattering quantities and allows for instance to derive the atomic
excitation during the scattering event.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Superluminal hidden communication as the underlying mechanism for quantum correlations: constraining models
Since Bell's theorem, it is known that quantum correlations cannot be
described by local variables (LV) alone: if one does not want to abandon
classical mechanisms for correlations, a superluminal form of communication
among the particles must be postulated. A natural question is whether such a
postulate would imply the possibility of superluminal signaling. Here we show
that the assumption of finite-speed superluminal communication indeed leads to
signaling when no LV are present, and more generally when only LV derivable
from quantum statistics are allowed. When the most general LV are allowed, we
prove in a specific case that the model can be made again consistent with
relativity, but the question remains open in general.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. For the Proceedings of the Conference DICE 2004
(Piombino, 1-4 Sept. 2004
More randomness from noisy sources
Bell experiments can be used to generate private random numbers. An ideal
Bell experiment would involve measuring a state of two maximally entangled
qubits, but in practice any state produced is subject to noise. Here we
consider how the techniques presented in arXiv:1309.3894 and arXiv:1309.3930,
i.e. using an optimized Bell inequality, and taking advantage of the fact that
the device provider is not our adversary, can be used to improve the rate of
randomness generation in Bell-like tests performed on singlet states subject to
either white or dephasing noise.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Proceedings of TQC 2014; published
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